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TIL that approximately 90% of all gunpowder used by the Patriots during the American Revolution was supplied by France

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RB51 TIL Texas abolished “Last Meal” before execution because a prisoner, Lawrence Russell Brewer, requested a 5 course meal and ate nothing of it because he “wasn’t hungry after all”
xVyND TIL in February 1961, East Orange, NJ police arrested 14 people from their beds at home after midnight. Their crime was failing to return library books that were more than four months overdue.
OGyx7 TIL about a plant that can 'walk' up to 20 meters per year: The Socratea exorrhiza, or the "walking palm," can slowly move itself to better locations.
0dm6M TIL about a man who was a medieval flatulist ( farter) who used to perform for the King Henry II every christmas. He was awareded 30 acres of land in return for his service
yNDl TIL in 1936, notorious murderer Richard Loeb was fatally stabbed while sexually assaulting a prison inmate. The Chicago Daily News then wrote that Loeb, ‘despite his erudition, ended his sentence with a proposition’.